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Arthur Beecher CarlesFrench Scene at Voulangisc. 1921
c. 1921
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The Philadelphia modernist Arthur B. Carles was a brilliant colorist and an extraordinarily innovative painter. Though Carles trained initially at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, soaking up the more conservative teaching of William Merritt Chase and Thomas Anshutz, he was deeply influenced by the avant-garde art scene in Paris during his first trip there in 1905. During this time, he soaked up the new ideas of the avant-garde, met important fellow artists who were to remain life-long friends, and absorbed the sights and sounds of vibrant city life. He also captured his environment in numerous landscape sketches which were painted quickly on location. He referred to these quick studies as “squirts,” and they were executed on small beveled wooden panels, which could fit into slots in his portable paint box.
French Landscape is one of these spontaneous sketches, and it was probably painted during Carles’s 1921 visit to Paris. The painting is an excellent example of the Fauvist-inspired sketches that Carles produced during this period, revealing his early love of orchestrating beautiful and expressionistic color harmonies. In this study, Carles uses a bold palette of greens, oranges, blues and purples. The landscape is painted in a highly simplified manner, with an emphasis on flat planes of color. However, Carles has not yet entirely eschewed a sense of illusionistic space; his use of paler, more muted tones in the background creates the illusion of atmospheric perspective.
- Creator:Arthur Beecher Carles (1882-1952, American)
- Creation Year:c. 1921
- Dimensions:Height: 12.25 in (31.12 cm)Width: 16.25 in (41.28 cm)
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- Condition:Excellent condition. There is a minor spot of inpaint in the upper left edge and a small speck of inpaint in the upper right sky.
- Gallery Location:Bryn Mawr, PA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2773215655312
Arthur Beecher Carles
Philadelphia Modernist Arthur Beecher Carles was born in Philadelphia and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he also taught and travelled to Paris on the prestigious Cresson Scholarship in 1907. Greatly influenced by French Fauvism and Post-Impressionism, Arthur B. Carles met and became friends with Matisse and others living in Paris. His work is in major museums including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art. Carles' main subjects were nudes and still lifes. His nudes, painted between 1920-30, were heavily influenced by his trips to Paris; his model and muse in many of these paintings was Angele, a red-headed French girl who was persuaded by Carles' daughter, Mercedes to model for her father. Whether painting a still life or figure, Carles used the surface to apply abstract forms of color, defining his new "Modern" approach.
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